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Whatever Happened To… Shakespears Sister’s Hormonally Yours

The goth-adjacent pop-rock duo made only one album as a full partnership, but that, says David Bennun, was more than enough to enshrine their greatness
Black Sky Thinking

Right Out Of Hand: The Joy & Shambles of Bananarama

Punk, pop and politics: Bananarama did it all, with great songs and a load of pisstaking fun. Their five key albums have just been reissued – on coloured vinyl and with limited-edition coloured cassettes, as is only right and proper – so here we celebrate a little of what made them wonderful

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My Pretty Poison: Revisiting Shakespears Sister’s Sacred Heart

Lesley Chow turns the clock back thirty years to study the power dynamic between Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit on the Shakespears Sister debut album

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